Environmental Molecular Science Institutes (EMSI) Update
Dear Colleague,
During the past nine years the NSF Divisions of Chemistry, Earth
Sciences and Atmospheric Sciences, Geosciences Directorate, have
supported a cross-disciplinary program called Environmental
Molecular Science Institutes (EMSI). Many researchers have
submitted proposals to the EMSI competitions and the resulting
research has significantly improved our understanding of the molecular
processes underlying environmental transformations. The EMSI Program
has also effectively developed academic/national laboratory partnerships.
The solicitation for proposals under which the EMSI competition
has recently been run (04-509) has expired. NSF and DOE staff have
discussed how this program might evolve in the coming years, guided
by community input. At the present time, we have decided not to
announce the targeted EMSI funding opportunity again.
Environmental
molecular science remains an exciting and stimulating area of chemistry.
Challenges and opportunities in environmental molecular science
were discussed in two recent workshops addressing basic chemistry
research related to Sustainability. The workshop reports provide
background and context as well as some new scientific challenges.
We will still accept proposals for research programs in environmental
molecular science in FY2007 and future years. Principal investigators
are strongly encouraged to contact Program Directors to discuss
plans for future submissions. Proposals should be submitted
to the disciplinary program in the appropriate Division that is
closest to the main research thrust of the proposed work. These
programs include (among others) Analytical and Surface Chemistry,
Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry, and Atmospheric Chemistry.
Collaborative proposals are still encouraged and can be accommodated
within existing programs.
Additional information on all of these programs, including submission
deadlines, can be found on the web sites of the three Divisions
(see below). Contact information for NSF program staff can also
be found on the websites.
Sincerely,
Luis Echegoyen
Director, Division of Chemistry, NSF
Arthur Goldstein
Acting Director, Division of Earth Sciences, NSF
Jarvis Moyers
Director, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, NSF
NSF website: http://www.nsf.gov
DIVISIONAL WEBSITES
Chemistry http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=CHE
Atmospheric
Sciences http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=ATM
Earth
Sciences http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=EAR
REPORTS FROM SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOPS
November 2005 http://www.chem.cornell.edu/gc39/nsf/
June
2006 http://www.chem.uiowa.edu/research/sustainability
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